#632: PASOLINI, Pier Paolo: The Decameron (1971)
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The Decameron [1971]
Spine #632
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Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. The Decmeron explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Among the chief delights are a young man's exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini's appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director's most popular films, The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
111 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
in Italian
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writers
Based on the stories of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was 49 when he wrote and directed The Decameron.
Other Pasolini films in the Collection:
#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F3: Love Meetings (1964)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F7/#1013: Teorema (1968)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#634: Arabian Nights (1974)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
The Film
Other Pasolini films in the Collection:
#0000F1: Accattone (1961)
#0000F2/#236: Mamma Roma (1962)
#0000F3: Love Meetings (1964)
#0000F4: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
#0000F5: The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
#0000F6: Oedipus Rex (1967)
#0000F7/#1013: Teorema (1968)
#0000F8: Porcile (1969)
#0000F9: Medea (1969)
#633: The Canterbury Tales (1972)
#634: Arabian Nights (1974)
#17: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
The Film
The Extras
The Booklet
Sixty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by Colin MacCabe, and an article entitled Decamerotic.
Commentary
None.
On The Decameron
A visual essay by film scholar Patrick Rumble.
The Lost Body of Alibech (2005)
A forty-five minute documentary by Roberto Chiesi about a lost sequence from The Decameron.
Via Pasolini (2005)
A twenty-seven-minute documentary featuring archival footage of director Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society.
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